GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS, SUNDAY. JANUARY 24, 1 91 5
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Religious Thought; Sunday School Lesson; The Mission Field
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The Young Man Who Missed
Hla Chance and Who Was
Betrayed by a Woman.
(BIG SMOKE OR UTILE SMOKE IN
: OLD CHINA; OPIUM. OR CIGARETTE
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Chinese Say British Gave Them Opium,; Americana Gave Them
-, Cigarettes Medical Missions in Germany Growth of
'Korean Mission Buddhism In Japan.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON
' (By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)
A frank look at ths weakness of the
librongwk' men, Samson, is today'! Sub
'djr sciool lesson. " :" : i 1 !(
Back in the unsettled tine of Israel,
more than. 1,000 years hefore toe birth
of Jesus, before ever the people had a
king, and the leadership was with judges,
,or champions; or heroes, Stmson waa
Wa V ) ' ' '' ' "" . ' ' ." .v ""
' ' Iilca so many other notable oharaotsrs,
he wia the child of yearning and prayer
1 :and eovenant. His parents had been
long ehildlesa when tnoy- reaelred with
May the promise of a eon. In a spirit of
fmtetrA exaltation, they dedicated the
('.babe to a life apart, and made for him
the Kazirite Tovrs, which later were
wees Tor jnnn vne .Baptist, tin neaa
jsbonld go unshaven, he should drink no
iwine and toooh naught unrlean. "And
the ehild srew, and Jehovah blessed him.
And the Spirit of Jehovah began to
more him." V , . ! : "
' There was a peat beginning. In
heritance, natural sifts, spiritual en
doeement all were the lot of this young
iNasirlts. The most favored youth of
his day was Samson. All the elements
of greatness were his. He . had been
made readr for great service to his time.
Thus far his ease runs parallel to that
of a host of our favored young men of
today, richly dowered! in body, mind,
fbrfune and home. To them, as ta Sam
son, the nation looks for leadershiD and
V 'deliverance. Some of them, alas, fail In
jidte the asms fashion a he. t ,
f- Every mature person has marvelled
I at the young men and women of prom.
A ise who have not amounted to anything.
' 'Jsverjr eollege has Its stories to tell 01
:: 'graduates sent forth with ' high hopes,
V who have never met expectations. They
are the Samsons, dowered with giant
capacities, which they fall to use aright.
, All -who follow 1 baseball recall the
'", .death last year, of a meteoric pitcher
who oould not settle down to his real
work. He preferred, to be a bar-room
: hero, a "wonder" on a small team, to
- doing his ("ay's work on th famous nine
of which he was tor a tune a memoer.
. Swiftly he slipped down and down, until
death ended- the tale of what might
have been. It waa the Samson story
; . over again.
Samson's strength was not only phy-
sIcaL ' He had qualities of leadership-
enterprise, daring, resourcefulness ana
self -reliance. His cranks .reveal this.
But' these eifts were not used in sober,
mature and reasonawe. taamoa xor tne
heneflt nf his neoDle. Samson nref erred
a mad personal exploit to a substantial
! aentevement 01 citiscnanip.; lie naa ntw
. that sense -of responsibility which marks
the real leader. S.
, : Later history developed ft brilliant flg-
ure singularly akin todamson. This
waa King Richard theionhearted, of
. England. Both gloried'tn deeds of dan
' ger and daring, to do. " Xeither seemed
ever entirely to grow up A whimsical
'humor impelled them to?wild escapades
of adventure, when they should instead
- have, been soberly Serving'the welfare of
their neoDle. Neither was bad. and
there were noble traits irrtHith: but they
- failed to use their gifts aright. Xo sub
. i stantial achievement remained as a me-
k morial to either. Pioture)ue and heroic
1 figures they were, ut na nistortan can
A write them down as suooesaiui.
The Dresence of enemies never af-
' frighted blithesome Samson. He dwelt
amid , the Philistines, the power rui in
vaders from the west, who so long op
pressed Israel. In his day the enemy 1
voke was heavy on the people's neck. .Ii
was an hour for a hero,-a deliverer, and
Samson waa sent to be the man. He,
however, used for his own sport gifts
that were meant for service. Instead of
organising and leading the Jews against
the tyrants, he provoked the latter by
his wild pranks. Not until his closing
hour did. Samson soberly serve his nation.-
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That is the condemnation that must
be written ovr against his name as
against the name of every other gifted
man who lives for himself alone in a
time when his country needs him he
fllit ij tAvtk hia heat in his time. Prnh-
i ably U Hamson were in ingiana toaay
he would be either a professional football
Hrplayer or an aviator; no place in the
trenches for him.
Samson U best known for his practi-
' ral Jokes. Hs is the buffoon of the
Bible. On his way to court a Pnilistine
wife ha slew a lion with his barer-hands.
Later, as he passed by, he saw the car-
. ease filled with honey. At the wedding
feast ha wagered 30 garments with the
guests that they could not guess his
nddlei
"Out of the eater came forth food,
And out of the strong came forth sweet
noes' -
His bride teased Samson Into telling
her the answer, which she told to her
countrymen, that they might not have
to pay the wager. Samson thereby lost
ths wager and the wife, but he went out
land slew 30 Philistines and paid the bet
with their raiment.
f.tA Rirnum ainnrht reconciliation
jMh his healhen wife, only to find that
W bis father-in-law had given her to an
Nilh flur immature hero conld be
stirred to action only by individual
wrongs. He had not the imagination to
visualise a whole people s suffering. An
affroot.to himself fut him into action.
He waa like the rich woman who thought
of the poor's need of eoiil only when her
own fire went out. So this affront led
Samson to gather (doubtless with the
help of companions) 30l jamais, which
he tied tail to tail. A firebrand was
attached to each pair of conjoined tails
and the animals were set loose amid the
ripe grain fields of the Philistines an
exploit which led the latter to burn the
faithless wife and father-in-law.
Whimsically, this- weather vane fel
low thereupon undertook vengeance for
the murder of his wife aud her fsther,
and slew a host of Philistines. Tu
fatter harried Judah in force, and hsm
f son, in their midst by a rue. slew a
Whousnd of them with the jawbone of
ra asa. In personal prowess the strong
'was not lacking. Latar, besieged
(By IDA CLYDE CLABKE.)
: The international .reform bureau is
doing a commendable work in China. Id
ward Thwing, of .Peking, is its represen
tative. Though the bureau if interested
in all kinds of aoalal reform, in China
Its energies are spent mostly in fighting
opium, cigarettes and liquor,
Although China had cigarettes but 10
years, she now consumes mora than the
United state. In a single year the to
bacco eomnaniaa snand 1.000.000 in arold
for advertising purposes. Last year there
were vsoiuvujjuo -wortn 01 agorenss con
sumed in China. The tobacco companies'
mvested capital yielded them 35 per cent.
In Tai' Yuan Fu last year cigarettea to
the amount of 200,000 were sold. Wom
en use them almost as freely as the men.
The sam is true of the tobacco -habit,
aside from cigarettes.
China bas mane mast commends Me
progress in ridding herself of the opium
habit.'. Her task is not finished. In
Shanghai, as the shops become rarer in
tlx native quarters tHoy in crease is the
foreign quarters.' There are now over
00 opium smoking dens in the foreign
'concession of Shanghai and these are
licensed. There is 2,000,000 worth of
British opium in Shanghai, and now
that the price of opium has increased,
the merchants aop to ' don we tneir
money. Many a Ohinaman, In his heart,
curses England for forcing opium upon
tnem, out now w Americans can aroop
our beads in shame, for the United
States is giving them cigarettes. The
Chinese say the British gave them the
"big smoke and the American
quired for mission doctors and nurses,
and is always Justified in practice. .
-." ' Building la China.
Building in China is a very long and
difficult task, writes a missionary.. Th
timber is often bought by buying the
trees and having them cut and carried
In. Then the trick has to be made, and
often we have to watt for that. The
stone Is carried in on donkeys' backs
Then oomes the tedious task of looking
after the workmen. When ona compares
ths wages of carpenters here with the
wages at home it seems unbelievable.
Barely indeed does one pay over ten
cents a day, and masons are paid about
the same, not more. With such wages,
the workmen cannot properly feed them
selves and.their families. Ths men soon
tire. They have to have long rests in
the middle ef the day, besides time to
stop and amoks, and drink tea. They
have to be carefully watched, or they
TERSE COMMENTS ON
1
Toreijrn Mission Opportunities
The World Around,' Young
People's Subject.
THE WORLD'S OPEN DOORS
"little smoke."
1 Americans gave the
" An Armenian's Bequests.
The will of Barkis K. Telfeyan, the
well-known Armenia a rug merchant of
Jew xorkv s certainly a remaricanie
document. It gives a notable example
of the return of the "bread cast upon
the' waters" in foreign missionary effort.
It also probably represents the largest
sum ever given by an Armenian in
America to philanthropic work in- his
own country, and ranks among the most
splendid gifts that have been made
through the American board. He leaves
a total of $90,000- for work in Tvrkey to
be distributed among various colleges of
the American board. Including also be
quests for the girls' school in Adabazar
and Brousa. He came to America 2s
years ago a poor man, and with other
members of his family has built up ons
of ths largest rug businesses in ths coun
try. While under the influence of mis
sionary work in hia native land, his open
and active connection with the church
has been in New York, where he was a
member of the Armenian Evangelical
church.
: German Medical Missions.
Fourteen medical missionary associa
tions, in Germi ny and Switzerland are
represented in the German Medical Mis
sionary l'ear Book for 1914, , , t
The center of these various assoeia
tions is the medical misslonsry institute
in the University of Tubingen, which
provides for the full or partial training
of doctors-, for the preparation of nurses
and midwives for service on mission
fields, and for hospital work in the rec
ognition and treatment of tropical dis
eases. At the opening of this year Germany
had 22 medical missionaries in active
service, "and 3o women trained in the
Tubingen institute were in the foreign
field.
The characteristic thoroughness of the
German is shown In the training re-
put in sojms very poor worl
This. continual watching Is what wears
out tae roreigner, as Be tries to super
intend ths building. But as the build
Ing is going on there Is a ehanoe to help
them in some .small measure, at least,
to a knowledge of the Saviour, and for
all these opportunities. In whatever
plane, ws are thankful.
Growth sf Keret Mission.
The Korea mission of the Southern
Methodist church was opened in 1890 by
Dr. C. F. Held. In 1898 the missionary
torn consisted of Kev. and Mrs. (J.
Held, Bey. and Mrs. 0. T. Collyer, Dr.
and Mrs. K- A. iiardle and Mrs. J. 1'
Campbell. There were two stations and
circuits, four assistants, sf.idents en
rolled .in the schools and 116 churoh
members. The native contributions
were $67.08.
The reports for 1914, as given at the
recent annual meeting, show the foi
lowing statistics; Missionaries, 43
wives of. missionaries, 21; ordained na-
tive preachers, 7; local preachers, 23
membership, 6,000; native contributions,
(5,911. There are 10S exhortera, 30 col
portevrs, 46 Bible women and 90S class
leaders. Of Sunday schools there ere
174, with 600 teachers and about 7,006
pupils. There are nearly 2,000 students
in the schools and ooVcges. Many thou
sands of patients are treated annually
in ths seveml Hospitals.
Testimony From an Unexpected Source.
The Japanese government report con
cerning religion in Korea cannot be
thought biased in favor of Christianity.
It is therefor interesting to note that
th handbook of the government general
acknowledges the weakness of Buddhism
and remarks (page 58) 1 "In contrast to
It Christianity has gained greatly in In
flnence. in recent years. Christian -mis
atmia.'hMMea undertaking the evangel!
sation of the people, carry on effective
medical and educational work, winning
for themselvee great, popularity and the
confidence of the people." The report
gives the number of Roman Catholics as
80,000 and of Protestant as 360,000. The
number of J roteatant missionaries now
in Korea is 800, a larger number than
ths goal set by the Edinburgh confer
ence in 1910. This is a small force for
the evangelization of 13,000,000 Koreans
and indicates ths responsibility placed
upon the native ohnrch. There are now
' 1, t.1 V
over one inouna.nu nr.uvv ivwcbui
tora, and a large proportion of the
Protestant churches are self-supporting.
There are 30,000 pupil in mission
schools. Mission Review tf th World.
The best way to keep good acts m
memory is to refresh them with new.
Lato.
at Gaza (th city that is figuring in the
day's war dispatches), he carried away
the gates of the city on his shoulders,
and dropped them on a mountain. A
giant's prank, that.
As Samson is a name Tor physical
strength and spiritual folly. So Deliah
is history's synonym for a disloyal wom
an. Samson was infatuated with her,
and his enemies bribed her to betray
him by learning and disclosing the se
cret 0 bis strength. He jested with her
by misleading answers to her impor
tunities, so that she successively bound
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mm Wlin grrwn willies, wiiii uiiuifu 11
,o.. .nd till, a weaver's web. erring M whom the spoils of
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
. Despatch is the sou! of business.
fxird Chesterfield.
(By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.)
Illustrated papers have lately been
carrying Diet urea of the Fiil Islanders.
British forces in rranse. monsands of
persons upon seeing these photographs
doubtless for th Erst time linked the
cause of foreign missions with the pre
ent war. The Fijian were savage can
nlbalt a few decades ago; now they ar
Umstians, albeit engaged m the unchris
tian business of war. Within the mem
ory of living men, a difficult and danger
ous mission field, the Fiji inlands are
now more godly than some of the capi
tals of Europe. Th door to them had
to be forced open, but th results have
been dramatically successful. Now the
whole earth has scarcely any doors
closed to th missionary.
Evey bearer of a torch of light of
truth, knowledge, Justice and liberty,
anywhere on earth, is a coworker with
the Christian missionary.
How dramatic the Interplay nf the
world's religious forces has beeome is
shown by the fact that practically all nf
our largest American cities contain
heathen temples, where Asiatics worship
idols. There are also various centers nf
propaganda for these non-Chrlstlan
faiths. It is no figure of speech to my
that today the world is witnessing a
struggle to the death between the va
rious religions, with the present evidence
seeming to point toward the decline and
ultimate disappearance of the pamn
faiths, leaving the three great monothe
istic religions Christianity. Mohamme
danism and Judaism to contend for the
allegiance of humanity.
The new and heart-searching calls that
ar coining from Europe and Asia fur
succor for the starving and the sufferinc
constitute s real missionary opportunity.
This is an hour wherein Christianity may
prove itself the friend and helper of hu
manity in need. Every dollar's worth of
relief given to th present victims of
war, especially in the Turkish emnire.
will be an investment in kingdom fu
tures. Th gravity of the elemental hu
man situation in certain mission fields is
a oh alienee to all conventional work and
giving. Is th church great enough to
adapt these to an unparalleled emer
gency?
Apart from Thibet and Afghanistan.
there are no closed fields. Everywhere
else the man with the book may go. In
moat lands he is invited and welcomed.!
Th historic and best known mission
fields China, Turkey, India, Japan!
Korea, Africa, South America and the I
South Sea Island all give tho mis
sionary a cordial Welcome and a free
field. Th romance of danger and per
secution has almost entirely disap
peared from the missionary's calling
In. nine eases oat of ten he may live as
comfortably and as safely as his brother
minister at home. The new appliances
or tne printing press, rapid transit,
moving picture machines, scientific hos
pital equipment, motor boats, auto
mobiles, etc, are tools for his work.
This is a great day to be a missionary.
George Sherwood Eddy has been
holding evangelistic meetings in seven
Chinese cities, with an average attend
ance of 3,000 hearers daily. His
converts were reported as seven thou
sand. Inese mostly came from the stu
dent and upper classes. Veteran mission
aries, who best know the difficulties oi
access to the gentery, marvel at the
overwhelming opportunity which has
pened in China to the Christian church.
Barber Chair is Pulpit For This Worker Jj; JgXAS HEN HAS
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12 Years She Raises $230
Worth of Chickens and
Helps Missions' Cause,
VIVID AFRICAN PICTURE
THE 3HOP or THE TIH COMJANPMEr-nVg
It Is called "The Barber Shop of th Ten Commandments." It Is tn New
Fork city and is undoubtedly the only ona ef its kind In the world. Every
night after Its proprietor finishes with his rasor b goes to prayer meeting
and gives bis testimony for the benefit of New York's "down and outs," who
have been under his ministering care.
"Jake the Burger," who has charge of this new tonsortal atelier, once
adorned shops In some of New York's fashionable hotels. In an evil day he
yielded to his thirst for strong drink and fori mto the ways of the "down and
outs." Be roamed the streets in want until he finally emerged into tills new
light The walls of this novel barber sbop are covered with texts and re
ligious mottoes. Back of the customer, but reflected in the glass, are th
Ten Commandments, and wherever the man In the chair may turn his head
he may read some sentiment that ought to lead blm to a better Ufa. "Jake
the Barber" says that he finds more Joy In living now than he ever did. for
Dot only is be re-established In his trade, but be also is the means of aiding hla
fellow men.
MR. ROCKEFELLER MAKES BIG GIFT
TO INTERCHURCH HEADQUARTERS
Central Agency of AH North American Denominations in New
York City Gets $50,000 a Year A Clearing House For
Religion Allied Mission Boards.
each time, The Philistines are upon
thee." Of course Samson wss -foolisL
not to perceive what all this meant:
but Solomon later ooservea mat uie
ways of a man with a woman are past
finding out.
Teased, reproached, nagged without
ceasing, Samson at length divulged his
secret i the Natilite vow, which, made
him a dedicated man, was the secret of
his strength. The cutting of his hair
would mean the shearing of his strength
The perfidy of the woman and the pa
tience of his enemies, had at last con
miered Samson. He was In th Philis
tines' hand, and they blinded him, and
bound him with fetters of brass and
made him to grind at the mill, like a
dumb animaL
Samson never reslly saw aright until
his eyes were put out. In Ms blindness
he perceived the folly of his youth, and
his missed opportunities. A pathetic
figure he, the redoubtable and Invincible
hero now the sport of children and loaf-
. In those bitter days there grew up
In his heart a great purpose to do one
service for his nation. As he felt his
strength return-- fact which be con
cealed from his captors a plan shaped
itself in bis nimd.
6i when called into the great hall of
assembly to make sport for his enemies
his hour came. The incident, the climax
of Samson's cereer, is best told in the
words of Scripture:
'And Samson called unto Jehovah, and
said. O Lord Jehnvali. remember me. I
pray thee, and Mrrnpthcn ma, I pray
thee, only this once. O Ood, thet I may
be at once avenged of the Philistines
for rev two eyes. And Samson tool-
hold of the two 'middle pillars upon
ivhlch the house rested, and leaned upon
them, the one with Ms right hand, and
the other with his loft. Ard Samson
said. Let me die wtth the Philistine.
And he bowed himself with an his
might; and the. bona fell upon the
lords, and upon all the people that were
therein. So the dead that he ik t at his
death were more than they that he slew
in his life."
Cod give us men' A time like this
demands.
I Strong minds, great hearts, true faith
and reaur nanas,
Mn whom ths lust of office does not
kill:
office can
not buy;
Men wh- eossea opinions and a will;
Men who hive honor, and who will
not lis;
Tali met., . -in -crowned, who live above
'he fog.
In pvbli! ruty and in private thinkingl
J. G. Holland.
:
A haprr man or woman is a better
thing than a five-pound not. Rob
ert Louis Stevenson.
I have been crucified with Christ; and
it is no longer I that live, but Christ
liveth in me : and that life which I now
live in the fleah I live in faith, the faith
which is in the Son of God, who loved
me, am! gave himself up for me. Gal.
2:20.
Lord of the world 1 whoa kind and
gentle ear
Is joy and rest,
Whose counsels and commands so
gracious are,
fisest and heat,
Shin or my path, dear Lord, and
Guard th way,
Lest my poor heart, forgetting, go
astray.
Henry Bateman.
TTiere are now about five hundred
separate translations of the Bible in use
on mission fields. Every language and
every important dialect spoken by the
human race now has the Scriptures in
its own tongue.
A whole Christ for my salvation, a
whnl. Hi M fnr mv mtafT 1... 1.
for my fellowahln. a' whol. wrM I its executive body is known as tti
for my parish. St. Augustine.
The soul u like th sun, which dis
appears from our mortal eye, but which
reality never disappears, mil erase
lessly gives i'gbt in
the.
tppears,
Ms proi
progress. Goe-
A World Issue:
. When th cartoonists begin the esploit
prohibition on the front pages of the
metropolitan dsilie and a paper like the
Chicago Tribune pictures "King Alcohol'
as losing bis crown, we may be sure tiint
the publie is thoroughly awake to the
importance of th subject. By the action
of the warring nation, especially that of
Russia, regarding the liquor question,
prohibition in a day leaped to. promi
nence as a world iesue, and th attention
of all civilization is foruased upoa it.
No glance at the missionary subject
at the present time would be adequate
mat aiu not recognise tne tremendous
truth that America is today a mis
sionary to tne nations, not onlr are
the missionsry societies of North
America come to the place of leader-
ahip and largest responsibility, but.
what is even more significant, the na
tion itself is displaying the missionary
spirit of brotherhood toward ail other
nations, and evincing a sincero altruism
its International re!atioi,s. In these
wonderful times, natiions, as well as
churches and individuals have missionary
obligations.
No opportunity in the world todstr is"
greater than that which is offered "the
Christian church to substitute a Saviour
for a speculation. Humanity is weary
of philsophics. It has been overfed with j
them for millealums. and they do not
satisfy. When it comes to matching
philosophical systems, the east can hold
its own with the west; yet the east is
crying aloud for deliverance from an
intolerable lot. What it wants, and
what Christianity has to give, is per
sonal Redeemer, Jesus Christ, who be
comes a new force and a saving power
in the life of every person and nation
that accept Him. The Chrit who was
born in Aaia satisfied the whole world's
need. In every nation there are now
those who can joyfully testify that
Jesus has satisfied the deepest yearn
ings of their souls; and that he haa
(By RELIGIOUS RAMBLER.)
So quietly that this la the first publi
cation of the news, there hss been es
tablished in Kew York city a general
headquarters for the world-wide work
of the North American churches, the
Rockefeller foundation having given
$25,000 for the arrangement and fur
nishing of the entire 1 0th floor of the
Madison Avenue building for this pur
pose. The foundation also has pledged
$50,000 a year for live years for main
tenance, conditional upon the churches
raising $20,000 a year additional, and at
the end of five years this sum is to be
decreased $S,000 a year, until it ia whol
ly supported by the churches themselves.
Even among the ofllcials concerned, somi
doubts were expressed of the wisdom of
tying up the whole organization of
united American Protestantism with the
Rockefeller foundation. Hut the matter
is now sn accomplished fact. Whether
the body shall become incorporated or
not remains for consideration during the
present year.
Incidentally, the staggering potential.
it'es of this organization which has
grown up during 1M years as guietly as
a tree impress one who looks into the
fads. It la called the Allied Foreign
Mission Boards of North America, and
Com
mittee of Reference and Coun- 1'p
until the present year It haa been large
ly an annual conference, although its
personnel has been the official represen
tatives of the denominations. Now it
lias appointed a permanent committee
on conference with tho H:me Missions
council, and these (no bodies have eome
to be in reality ail that the Federal i
Council of the Churches of Cl.i'st In
America was expected to lie. It really
acts for all the churches, in great, com
mon Christian tasks.
Imagine a liodv eapabln of surveying
and organizing and i-orrelating the en
tire medical work of the whole non- ' , ; " . ,. ' 1 unkempt hsir and
Christian world- And of etandanliiing ?nf l"" "V Tn" . ' , " "nl ' time the village t
the training and equipment of .11 mis- '"":'" '
monari'!!. 'And of biuldinp up com- ' .. ' . ., . ,
grnral spirit of a nrtiirn to hriitt,
A British officer wa ointH an ay
irg, "On of th harnVnt, thine I hnvp
had to Ho raa to onh'r I h marhin
(runs tiirnfd on a column of ml vanritiK
fWmana who wcr singing th J.uther
Hymn.' In Rusitia a apwcial war l.itany
has been nrparwl, which invoke Divin
merry nl only upon th (jsoldiptH, hut,
also upon th dumb baata who ulJVr
in war.
With all its advnncvvl plana for work
In exfndin(f forMn tTrliona. vlurntinr
the home churfh. fnblihinf contra)
headquarters, providing for Ktironcjjna
religions and moral relations j and Americans in port eitie of the east.
liav sub Me ted for fenerations, j Htandardixing missionary methofU and
- European organizations was thrtntt.oed
with :.tim'tion. Ths Amoi iran miKr-ion-ary
bodies ara undertaking to firry
then on until the close of th- wur, or
longer, if need be, an International .tr
vice oom mens 1 1 rat a in its ay the relief
of the Belgians.
"Big Business" of Religion.
This body, which was in veaainn Imt
week in Garden City, Ixmif Inland, rep
resents th "big business'' of religion.
its receipts ot the ves r oil oi e were
mora than sixteen and a half million
dollars from the churches of the I "nit 'd
States and Canada, and nearly fo.ir mil
lions-from the native Christians who in
foreign lands have been won out oi
heathendom.
These boards hers jointly represented,
number two hundred and thirty-five.
They employed last year 0,HO5 foreign
migaionariea, and ft0,(71 native aiat
ants. To tell of the variety of work,
evangelistic, educational, - medical and
industrial, done by this ghibe-girdllntr
organization would take columna of
space. -
Itecausa of the official character of
those boards, representing literally all,
the Protestant evangelical churches ii
the land, it is possible to operate
through a small, select conference. Thus,
at Garden City the other day there wen
only 233 delegates present. Yet they act
ed upon a great array of snbjecta of
first importance.
Word From ths Filing Line.
Representatives of the conference
brought personal messages from recent
inveatigationa in Europe and Aaia. The
character of the company is indicated by
the statement that most of those pre,
ent had a personal knowledge nf Aia, !
aa residents or travellers). Kvery where, j
(By IDA CLYDE CLARKE.)
Pont hern Baptists are justly proud of
the record of a "missionary hen, ".which
has recently died in Texan at the ag
of 12 ycaraj" During that time she, mined
$250 worth) of thickens and ha i helped
support, missionaries in China and Bra
2i L It is wonderful to thin-c nf what
ha hcen acyrtn..isbed by this seominj!
ii-.pnincrvnt agncj. It auim.i't to a
livtif more thai, 41 cents a week for
every week of the entire 12 yevg, or
mure than $20 a vear.
At this rati, if every Baptist in ths
Sorthern Baptist convention who iias
fM littles for VuvrcssfuJly railing chick-
em would kep just one missionary ben
what a vast wmlc could be domt. At
thin rafs a country rhnroh of 30 mem
bers oould give the salary of a mission
ary. On this barls Southern Baptists
could enable ths board to multiply its
number of mlssionarisa many fold and
enlarge its work in every direction.
We must bear hi mind, however, that
the story of this particular missionary
hen comes from Texas, and it is evident
that even hens accomplish unusually
large things in Texan. At any rate, this
hen accomplished remarkable results. If
other hen JTfild only do one-half as well
still, ii' cery Southern Baptist who
could do so would keep one missionary
hen the work could he greatly enlarged.
A church nf (10 member would be ahU ?
pay the salary of a missionary, and ths
vast majority of 3,000 cburchc have
more than 60 members.
The moat Important lesson, howmtr.
to be gathered from this story is that of
the value of small ennt ributions made
frequently. Any plan of raining millen
ary contributions which will lndno peo
ple to make their contributions every
time the people gathtv for worship will
enahb the church to do far larger things
with very little tacrint. Huch a nlan
enablca more people to givs and also
makes it possible for moat people to give
more.
A well known woman inisnioua.' y in
Batanga, Kamerun, West Africa, writes :
"Sit dows in your comfortable seata,
in a warm, well lighted room, with no
centipedes dropping down ou you from
a pulmleaf roof, eentipedea na big as a
well Mizcd German bratwurst, hard-shelled
as an icicle. Neither do you have to
stop in the middle of your reading to
kill a snake. Once I was reading in my
room at night. 1 nctor had gono to bed.
(Dr. W ttber.) When I huard Doctor
pound lug around in tha fxoui i omu nt a -
grant rate, so that I was moved to aak
if )a were breaking the Sunday evening
hj houseclcaniiig. j(M M'ui it WH- j,t a
anake, dropped down from the ceiling.
"Hut, of course 5'ou know, that does
not happen every day; though we an
more or lew jn danger of many things;
so am you; o is mont anyb -.Iy who
lias a certain life work. And every
iy used to the chances he haa to take
day after day. I Ml you, I would not
trade with any of you, if w do have
a thousand chance to catch sickness,
leprosy, mcbata and everything elae,
there is one thing to be considered: the
lxrd watches over us with a special
care. We nil mhi; it; we all have fe!,
it in great and small things. It's queer
how ner the Lord is to ua out here;
seems Africa ia nearer heavnn than oth
er lands.
''I waa visiting village schools and
went to Mekornengono. a nice 'town' of
hark huts on the. top of a beautiful
hill with many, many hills around--a
heH;t re.'T-t I- v f anoraina. Ho.- niu.,i
forest with never a human life in it.
The gorilla and t ho chimpanzee;, tho
leopard and the elephant the main po
seatjors of it. Yuu hear their voices
in the 'still of the night" with many
other queer nbaurd sound. You lift your
net a little anil peck out. to the bright
stars, ever t he saute at home over
mother's hnupe in (Jermany, and far off
in America; and you thank the Txud
that you cim lie here on your cot under
the ragged ravei of a liulu hut, many
day trips away from any white poopla
and secure and you rt'rnp off to sleep
again, wondering which of his wives
Ndnngo will Anally koep, when he con
feflftett and lines up hM erooRed family
life, or whether you should throw Hi jo
nut of school or not, etc., and off you
are, until in the dawn of the morning
the meager roosters begin to crow, the
village liable begin to wakc. and howl
I L. , !snl .thr his oo. ln,m rails Ton to
inn hav, !, stirred 1 l.s thoussnH, i mornj ju vf
of eonvsrts lnailu by George Micrwooil , .,, " ' -
itjj i -n.; .u- .... : aouse.
'. . ' '"('nlr voiir ri,-t. vml rrcpn Inln ihm
" ' rr,r-nri neccSMarv alt. re .... thp W th.
Billy Sunday meetings 11. Philadelphia. . ' , ' '
tho I
mon and concerted sebe-me of education
for hundreds of millions of young men
and women in Asia and Africa! And of
creating a literary propaganda designed
to change the thinking and the character
of more than half the people on earth I
I No less ambitious than this are the
schemes of the Allied Miasion Boards
of .Vorth America.
Preventing Collapse of Beligion.
The difficult and delicate tasks which
this body of Americans undertake it
seen from the simple statement that
they slone can prevent a complete onl
lapse and severance of those- interna
tiona!
which
but have been imperiled bv this war. j preparation, unifying educational snd
A tragedy ef the first order won1'' j medical misionn, arranging for a great
ne tne sundering oi all the ties tnat , Latin-American mismonsrv eon:
j from the
his nket or
I ' rman lui
'In the
j ians of t he
1 beginning
; h af hen hU
rll Mil
tart off. Hv that
her comes back
lad in his red bed
i a fring.d red and white
fi.hlerloth
h' Ili'iuse are f h Christ -wri.
t noKt ly women at th
id t he Srthoollmys, 1Tli
After Prohibit ion What?
This .t the In e tupie diKctjovd
th" Mtiornil W . I I' organifTw
the reet-n) Hjum;it einiiention in AfUii
'.b i. of the apeak er-4 Kiid that f
reply nf the lienor interests to tin- -(ii.
tion in "blind pig and whi-k -ic:
ner Nhe p"iltt--d .nf. how.e f
t hee fllf found .here, ef t . !i
H lonh einf H. ( rt- W n .tif i '. - it .
her orfani.ing i k the pa-i .i )
five saloons and vt 25 Mire! ;
town with Is . n had ' er .t
pd
hkewiM created new longings of which j erahip in cooperation. ')nlv
he himself is the satisfaction.' ( could save the situation. An
This missionary sows n life in order J representative of the allied
that God may reap a harvest of lives.
Reckless livers.
Prof. Charles S. Carter, lecturing be
fore a grammar school on the nature and
effects of alcohol and pointing out par
ticularly the result of its use upon the
liver, tons summed up: n perceive
that alcohol deatvovs one of the moat im
portant organs. The rst kleas liver, lit
word, wind Bp a Urerless wrack.9 .
bind Europe's moral and religious lead-next year, and ' forth, the conference
America ; never lost th hroonng sense of t'i
em inert world rrisi- and of the universal bc
mioioii j reavement eauned by the war In wit
months, perhaps as vet unnoticed and unpre-
brds has been in Knrop f
visiting all the belligerent nations, upon I dieted the world war will have a direct
this delicate and difficult mission. The 'effect upon the world's religions,
success of hia labors of conciliation snd j " .-
ooop?ration is now reported. Despite We venture the statement that prohi
the war, the religious leaders of Furon I bit ion has manv thousand more friends
another m
places. Ai
generally,
tion doe
merely i.
breeder or
sa loon.
th ll'i
id t':
It i
Of.f pi
htin t r
Hh-.I
p. op.
.ell -
had - ill. .-I
"Io in...'- hiletr.i .' jii'Ti o'.' n their
Iionje- now than iiFiJ'-r the .rt!oori re
gime?' Tl.1 "fi" nf lit fi(tioHi
still trust ons another, and are prepared ! in the I nitei Mate todar than it had : sent k fitter ant t.-.n:s nj t ennesee
to work together. ! before the fall elections nf JftI4 and the f nomR t.n,e Rgo. 1 t: r- ; Ik shred aa
Tn the present stange inf world emer-i liquor traffic many thousand nure foes, i increase "f ! p r fnt m the n urn Iter
gencT. the whole elaborate vf?a lien feveif fn father espejcialfy iu Ohio and 'ou-niL' th-ir o-w n homes si nee .-rouibiuosi
of Cliriatlan missions by continental 'California. I went into ailed.
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